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Word: smarting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much harder into corporate profits. They are already dwindling, to the grief of investors who saw the Dow Jones industrial average plunge from a July 17 high of 9337 to an Aug. 31 low of 7539, at least partly because it became obvious that earlier expectations of a continued smart rise in profits were wrong. Wyss expects after-tax profits to drop about 2% this year and stay essentially flat in 1999, perhaps rising a nearly invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quarterly Business Report: Goldilocks Gone | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...smart card to play. Rather thanappear subsumed by Harvard, Radcliffe can convinceits alumnae that the two parties are partners...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Radcliffe Tour Shares, Learns Little in D.C. | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

Some of the hippies will call this paternalistic, saying that implicit in the offer of admission to Harvard is a trust that the admitted student is smart enough to make their own fashion decisions. Just like now: they say anyone whom you trust to lead America into the next century should be trusted to lead themselves through Currier House without committing a spontaneous felony. I say to these people, tell that to the 25 upperclass students mugged in their own rooms every year by cash-strapped a cappella groups that have turned to banditry. Think what would happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: an open letter to the college | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...policy does the exact opposite; It's almost like we've moved from college back to junior high school. We're smart enough to know what we have to do in law school to learn the material," Persily said...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Students Rail Against Forced Attendance | 10/7/1998 | See Source »

...smart money here is on courses taught by people like Michael Sandel or William Gienapp--acknowledged baseball fans who will feel your pain...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Setting Your Post-Season Priorities | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

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